Скачать или смотреть John Coltrane , Downbeat Jazz Festival, Chicago 1965 Aug. 15

Coltrane ventures in period 'new thing' jazz with a radical solo . Never had he played so 'wild' at least in concert (afaik)

Sunday, 1965 Aug. 15 , following Cecil Taylor (matinee) were Coltrane and Shepp together in a one-tune performance . Here is the Coltrane solo only.

After a rather traditional 'Classic quartet' 1965 summer European tour , Coltrane ventured that evening in some radical period 'mew thing' form. He had never played so 'wild' at least in concert (afaik).

Possibly Coltrane wanted to pave the road towards a 'new thing' even more radical than Shepp and others. A 'savage' role he would soon assign fellow saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. Coltrane had also recorded 'Ascension' a few weeks earlier.

Finally if of any social-musical meaning here , mid august 65 was also the time of the Watts riots.

The sound track comes from a (YT) bootleg with some audio improvement. The RTB footage shows a two weeks earlier concert in Belgium.

The Chicago performance was received in various ways...here is the September *Downbeat mag*. comment :

"" After intermission, the John Coltrane Quartet, with Archie Shepp as an added starter on tenor, gave as tasteless adisplay of musicianship as I've ever heard. Not that all the members of the group played junk, for pianist McCoy Tyner and bassist Jimmy Garrison both took solo turns of beauty and imagination. But Shepp and Coltrane seemed to be more interested in trying to out-honk, out-squeal, and out-bleat each other than in playing music.""